Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0 performance problems | Date | Sat, 03 Jan 2004 14:54:10 -0500 |
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Samium Gromoff wrote: > Reality sucks. > > People are ignorant enough to turn blind eye to obvious vm regressions. > > No developers run 64M boxens anymore...
Developers shound NOT be running slow machines, but they should be testing slow machines. I do my builds on a four way Xeon machine, and install on a slow machine for test.
If you look at some of the response testing I'm doing, it's one a 96MB p3-350, just for that reason. And I have a P5-133 I built but haven't really benchmarked yet, it has only 64MB. I think the place such slow machines are relevant is embedded, which is why I occasionally rant about locking in code to hide Athlon CPU bugs which just wastes space on unbroken machines.
I have a pile of 486 machines I want to run as firewalls, don't plan to do kernel builds on those, either :-(
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